Global Photography: Key Concepts^​*​

Patrick Waterhouse reflects on the use of Anthropological photography in his series ‘Restricted Images’^​†​ where he considers how the subject of the image can be represented and participate in the creation of the image.^​‡​ This is also something I have been getting very interested in after reading ‘Decolonizing the Camera: Photography in Racial Times’ and after the formal apology made by ‘National Geographic’^​§​ and how this relates to my own previous practice as a Travel Photographer and how it was essentially my job to present the ‘exotic’ back to primarily a western audience and show images of the world that would have inevitably been seen before:

Very much linked to my answer to the question ‘Do you see parallels between the historic spread of photography and the transmission of digital imagery today?’ from the second presentation. There are parallels seen on Instagram that have been observed through accounts, such as: @Insta_Repeat^​#​ that is showing how social media platforms are converging into showing a generic unchallenging, albeit aesthetically pleasing image.

Again linking to the point about social media and how the rough edges begin to get ‘sanded’ down and companies such as Google ‘filter’ and edit content to suit a locality^​**​